South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today welcomed the draft decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to improve the treatment available to Alzheimer's patients in all stages of the disease. The latest draft guidelines issued by NICE recommend that people with Alzheimer's should have unrestricted access to four available drug treatments on the NHS.
North East Scotland Liberal Democrat MSP, Alison McInnes, has supported local businesses who are outraged at the Scottish Government for offering no respite to businesses whose rates have risen substantially.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on the police to meet and discuss the future of Kendal Torchlight Carnival. The annual event has recently come under threat, with cuts in the Cumbria Police budget pressuring the local constabulary to consider charging for their support on the night.
Stories suggesting all Surrey schools were on their way to becoming Academies appeared in national newspapers on 30th September. This was fortunate for local MP Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, as the Conservative party conference was due to start three days later, and even here in his home county of Surrey just one school was ready to become an Academy.
Lib Dem County Councillors Stephen Cooksey and David Goodwin have worked for some months as part of a small Council Task Group established to make recommendations about improving the chaotic arrangements that the County had in place when the heavy snow fell last winter. Many of the recommendations of the Group have been accepted by the Cabinet, which agreed to provide an additional £1 million to improve the service in the coming winter.
The Lib Dem council administration has formally announced it will seek to introduce a new planning policy making it tougher to convert to family homes into "houses of multiple occupation" for the private rental market.